Just in case you have DPM 2007 deployed on your network don’t forget to tune in on May 29 on a Microsoft Webcast called : DPM Engineering Talks About the Updates to DPM 2007. Unfortunetly the last DPM webcast was cut short and I couldn’t get an answer to my questions. I was interested if they would allow local backup in the new update that will come out shortly. Today, if the DPM Server is also a file server you cannot backup the local file shares . We have to rely on Windows Backup from Server 2003 to save our data on another drive on another network server.

Unfortunately I will be o vacation from May 28 and I will not be able to attend this webcast. Maybe I can watch the recorded version when I will get back.

I have just found out that Microsoft will very soon ( summer 2008 ) release a long awaited (at least for us) service pack for ISA Server 2006. We are currently have issues with Kerberos authentication between Internet Explorer 7 and ISA Server 2006 when we use proxy authentication. On some systems IE7 keeps prompting the user for a username and password. We have to manually deactivate Kerberos (disable “Enable integrated windows authentication” option in IE7) in order for the password dialog not to show up. Hopefully the service pack will fix this issue. Other than this issue ISA 2006 proved to be a very reliable solution; we currently have a 110 days uptime on our server.